Hello everybody welcome back to my channel, Sparkle English,
where I teach you different ways that you can improve your level
of English. One of the biggest problems that people trying to
learn English have is learning how to pronounce different words
especially because English is not a phonetic language. There
are many different rules you need to memorize or know in
order to be able to correctly pronounce words. So in this
video I'm going to teach you how to pronounce ED endings in
English. First we're going to start with verbs, how to
pronounce ED at the end of a verb. The past simple tense and
past participle of all regular verbs and in ED. For example,
want, which is the base verb, wanted, wanted. Wanted is the
past simple tense and wanted is the past participle. Talk,
talked, talked, play, played, played. But you'll hear that the
ED endings all sound differently. Let's listen again.
Wanted, wanted. Talked, talked, played, played. So why is this?
Well, that's what we're going to discuss in this video. So how do
we pronounce the ED in past regular verbs? We pronounce ED
in three different ways. The first is ID, ID. And listen
carefully: wanted, painted. The second one is T, T, talked,
stopped. We don't say talk-ID or stop-ID. And a lot of times when
people are reading English out loud, they have a tendency to
read it, like talk-ID or stop-ID because they know that with many
words it is wanted or painted. But that is incorrect. It's
talked, stopped. And the last one is just a D sound, played,
rained. Maybe you're wondering what's the difference between
wanted and played? Well wanted has an extra syllable. It's
want-ID. The ID adds an extra syllable at the end. The first
syllable would be want the second syllable,
Id
just like paint-ID but in the last one played. It's just one
syllable. Okay, so how can you know which way to pronounce ED
correctly? ED is pronounced like ID with an extra syllable after
verbs ending T and D sounds. Examples: end, ended, load,
loaded, paint, painted, want, wanted. You can see that the end
of all these words end in a D sound, D, T, and T. And because
of that we have to pronounce the ED like ID. But there is
something important to note. It is the sound that is the most
important thing, not the letter or the spelling. The ending
sound is the most important thing. So for example hate, it
ends with the letter E but ends with the sound T. So hate
becomes hated. Because it ends with the sound T not E, okay? So
some more examples: guard, guarded, start, started, decide,
decided, hate, hated, intend, intended, admit, admitted, need
needed, infect, infected. So now let's listen to some sentence
examples. And I'm going to say them more naturally at a faster
pace so you can hear the difference while I'm speaking. I
needed to talk to you last night. Jack wanted to go to the
meeting, but he was ill. He decided to apply for a new job.
So before I teach you about the D and T pronunciation of ED, I
need to teach you about voiced and voiceless sounds. You might
wonder why but that has to do with when we know when to use a
D pronunciation and a T pronunciation. Some consonant
sounds are voiced and some are voiceless. You can tell if a
sound is voiced or not by putting your fingers or hand on
your throat. When you say a sound, if you can feel a
vibration, it is a voiced sound. So I want you to put your
fingers or your hand on your throat for the next exercise. So
I want you to compare the difference between these two
sounds. We're going to compare the Zed or Z sound with S. The Z
sound is voiced. So place your fingers on your throat and make
the sound
Z.
You should feel a vibration on your fingers when you're making
that sound,
Z.
However, if you make the s sound, this sound is voiceless,
because you should feel no vibration on your fingers when
you make that sound. Now, the reason we're discussing voiced
versus voiceless sounds, is because this relates to how you
will pronounce ED. So first, we're going to review these
different voiced sounds. All of these different verbs here and
in a sound that has a vibration.
So live,
open, close answer, pull... all of these verbs end in voiced
sounds. And why is that important? Well, if it ends in a
voiced sound, we're going to pronounce the ED at the end in
the past simple or past participle with a D. So live
becomes lived, open becomes opened, close becomes closed,
answer becomes answered, pull becomes pulled. And all of these
will now end with the pronunciation of ED just as D.
However, over here, all of these end in voiceless sounds, where
you will not feel a vibration, ask hope, watch wash and the
laugh. So when we make these into the past symbol or into the
past, we will pronounce them in the past with a T. So ask
becomes asked, hope becomes hoped, watch, watched, wash,
washed, laugh, laughed. So let's do a bit more practice now. ED
pronounced as T. So verbs that end in a voiceless sound, we
pronounce the ED as T so here are different voiceless sounds.
P, K,
CH, SH, F, X.
So P we have help becomes helped, hope becomes hoped. Now
like, this ends in a K sound
like
liked, work, worked. The next one, S, kiss, kissed, dance,
danced. Now, although this ends in a CE, it has a S sound so it
ends like danced, watch, watched, reach, reached, wash,
washed, push, pushed, laugh, laughed, cough, coughed, fix,
fixed, wax, waxed... because all of these end in voiceless sounds
without a vibration we pronounce the ED as T. Now we're going to
look at some sentence examples and I'm going to say these
sentences in my normal speed of voice. I worked 10 hours
yesterday. She helped her mother make dinner. The mechanic fixed
the car. Now we're going to look at ED pronounced as D. So verbs
that end in a voiced sound. Again, that's a sound with a
vibration, we pronounce the ED as D. So call, called, fill,
filled. Now try pronouncing again for all of these sounds,
you feel a vibration. So these are voiced sounds: clean
cleaned, plan, planned, enter, entered, share, shared. The next
one is G or J: damage damaged, plug, plugged. Love, loved,
save, saved. Use, used, analyze, analyzed, describe, described,
disturb, disturbed.
Claim claimed, scream, screamed, allow, allowed, show, showed,
play, played, annoy, annoyed. Also, there's an important note
that words that end in a vowel sound, which is also voiceless,
we also use the D pronunciation for ED. Because the vowel sound
also ends in a voiceless vibration sound. So argue
argued, free, freed, try tried. Now let's look at some sentence
examples. The children played video games all night, my boss
allowed me to go home early, I managed to finish all my work by
five o'clock. Now I'd also like to note that we have some
exceptions. So the following ED words used as adjectives are
pronounced with ID. So for all of the work that we've been
doing, up until now, these have all been verbs in the past
simple or the past participle. But there are some exceptions
for these words that are adjectives. And not all of these
are verbs, but a few of them can also be verbs. So when these are
used as adjectives, we have to pronounce them with ID. So this
as an adjective is ragged. Cinderella wore a ragged dress.
This as an adjective is learned. My grandfather was a learned
man. Wicked, the Wicked Witch made an evil potion. Crooked:
the crooked cops stole drugs. Naked: the naked man ran through
the streets. Wretched: my old teacher was a wretched woman.
Blessed: blessed be the fruit. But when used as real verbs,
past simple and past participle, the normal rules apply. And we
would say for example, the priest blessed the child,
because in this case, this would be a verb. The students learned
a lot at school, because in this case, learned would be a verb.
So only when you're using these as adjectives, would you
pronounce these words with an ID ID. Okay, so I know that that is
a lot of information. So make sure to bookmark this video if
you need help. A lot of this is memorization and practice. But
it is a good trick to know about voiceless sounds and voiced
sounds to help you if you're ever confused about how to
pronounce one of these words. So now we're going to do a little
bit of practice. Can you put these verbs in the correct ED
pronunciation category? So we have these words right here, and
we have ID, T, and D. And all of these are verbs. Okay? So in the
comment section, I want you to write your answers for 1, 2, 3,
4, 5,
and six.
So I want you to place these verbs right here into the
correct category, whether these will end with an ID
pronunciation, T or D. So thank you once again for watching this
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